Tutorials & Other Educational Materials

Subject/Discipline Related Description

Biomedical Library Website Tour

This video presents an in depth look at the BL's website illustrating the many resources and services available from this site.

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EBooks: Finding & Browsing

 A short video that walks through the steps to find ebooks by title or to browse ebooks by subject.

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 EBP & PubMed

Evidence Hierarchy and Searching for Higher Level Evidence Articles in PubMed

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Finding Guidelines

An overview of tools that can be utilized to find Guidelines. Hosted by Vimeo.

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Interlibrary Loan

Three videos including an Introduction to Interlibrary Loan, Creating an ILLiad Account, and Placing an ILL Order.

  • Intro to ILL 
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  • Creating ILLiad Acct
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  • Placing ILL Request
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Keyword Searching

This video tutorial demonstrates how to identify and use keywords when searching. It also discusses how to craft effective searches using Boolean Operators.

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PICO Searching

This video tutorial demonstrates how to conduct a search in PubMed using the PICO format: patient, intervention, comparison, outcome.

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Qualitative Studies

This short video explains what is meant by a qualitative study and how you can locate these types of studies using the USA Baugh Biomedical Library resources.

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Quantitative Studies

This short video explains what is meant by a quantitative study and how you can locate these types of studies using the USA Baugh Biomedical Library resources.

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Searching for Articles in Nursing

This video contains strategies and tips to search for nursing-related articles in such databases as PubMed, CINAHL and SCOPUS.

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Systematic Reviews

A tutorial designed to help individuals find systematic reviews.  Hosted by Vimeo.

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 Database/Resource Description
CINAHL Tutorials designed to introduce new users to the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL).
Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI)

An introduction to the JBI EBP database.

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Micromedex This tutorial provide an overview of Micromedex, source for evidence-based, clinical care information on topics including drugs, pediatrics, diseases, and toxicology.

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OvidSP Introduction to the OvidSP platform.

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For a list of all OVID tutorials click HERE.
PubMed PubMed provides free, public access to the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE, a database of citations and abstracts in the health sciences.
  • Video 1 - What is in PubMed?
  • Video 2 - Finding articles by author
  • Video 3 - Finding articles in a specific journal
  • Video 4 - Finding articles from a citation
  • Video 5 - Finding articles on a topic
  • Video 6 - Finding information on latest treatments
  • Video 7 - Getting full-text for an article
  • Video 8 - Saving searches & email alerts
  • Video 9 - How subject searching works
  • Video 10 - Using the Advanced Search Bar
UpToDate This tutorial introduces new users to UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support resource. 

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All videos created in-house by University of South Alabama Biomedical Librarians unless otherwise indicated.